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Yup, next time you're grabbing a grande coffee, you can also buy one of these little readers for $10 (with a $10 rebate if you're a new user). That seems odd, but the explanation is that Starbucks is a big Square investor. Last year, Starbucks invested $25 million in Square as part of a deal that put the payment processors behind its counters. I don't know why you'd buy a reader at a coffee shop when you can go to you know, Best Buy or Apple or the internet. But I suppose the answer is synergy. [TheNextWeb]